"Cooperative Group Problem Solving"
Tom Foster
Department of Physics
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois
This workshop will give a brief overview of Cooperative Group Problem Solving in Physics. This technique was developed at the University of Minnesota and has been very successful in promoting both problem solving performance and conceptual understanding. Participants in the workshop will learn about how and why to form groups, how to make them cooperative (not competitive), and how to develop appropriate tasks for the groups. Participants will also have the opportunity to determine the difficulty of exam problems.